For their second release Minlove invited london based imprint Süd Electronic to submit new material that would best reflect the label's vision and output. This compilation offers a very diverse and highly individual exploration of minimal electronic music - ranging from highly rhythmical, african influenced textures, to the dubbier end of the spectrum, the icy reduced and yet quirky melodies and spacious cinematic meanderings.

"Wormhole", by label head Alan Abrahams offers harmonious juxtapositions between state-of-the-art production methods, Techno, world-music rhythms, and tribal chants / spoken words. Samples cut in and out at one instance and reappear in others, percussion is added at will, and textural elements are pasted into intricate collages to outstanding effects.

Lump's highly infectious "Cake and Discipline" is a grooving mass of granulated noises crackling away over the 4/4 with a funked up sub bass adding the swing and minimally grooving underneath. The track is built and dissected with perfect precision, with minimal synths dotted around the 4/4, and clever vocal edits. "Yellow Leaf" by Milos enters into reduced icy territories, with bassline depths to dubby floats and intricate textures forging a stripped, delicious line, in ascetic minimalism.
The closing track; " Halfway North", by Am/Pm further demonstrates, his ability to combine contemporary electronic music, with beautiful conceptual composition. The skeletal percussion, sounding like a rattle snake, acts as a perfect catalyst and background for deeply melodic and strangely sparse sequences - chords and strings.
Lerato/Süd

Tracklist
01 Portable - Whormhole
02 Lump - Cake And Discipline
03 Milos - Yellow Leaf
04 AM/PM - Halfway North

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